Python Jobs in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 28 7
Rank change year-on-year +11 -21 +9
Permanent jobs citing Python 267 444 895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.66% 6.78% 14.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.38% 22.18% 36.62%
Number of salaries quoted 169 317 318
10th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £44,250 £42,200 £34,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,000 £83,750 £91,250
South East median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £61,700
% change year-on-year +13.04% -6.81% +7.30%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 800 2,002 2,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.93% 30.55% 39.46%
Number of salaries quoted 568 1,592 1,383
10th Percentile £36,950 £37,500 £34,324
25th Percentile £47,375 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £55,790 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.44% -4.35% +4.55%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +10 115 £62,500 +4.17% 147
Oxfordshire +3 96 £62,500 +13.64% 88
Buckinghamshire +16 56 £60,000 +15.94% 63
Python
South East

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.00%) Confluence
2 6 (2.25%) Apache
3 4 (1.50%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.50%) IIS
4 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.37%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.75%) Simulink
4 2 (0.75%) Zemax
5 1 (0.37%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 86 (32.21%) AWS
2 68 (25.47%) Azure
3 34 (12.73%) Serverless
4 27 (10.11%) Amazon EC2
5 24 (8.99%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (7.87%) Power Platform
7 20 (7.49%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (5.99%) GCP
9 15 (5.62%) Amazon S3
10 13 (4.87%) Snowflake
10 13 (4.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (3.75%) SaaS
12 8 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (3.00%) PaaS
13 7 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (2.62%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.62%) GitHub
13 7 (2.62%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.87%) Firewall
2 9 (3.37%) 5G
2 9 (3.37%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.37%) DNS
2 9 (3.37%) LTE
2 9 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (3.00%) Internet
3 8 (3.00%) SSL
4 5 (1.87%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (1.87%) Multicast
4 5 (1.87%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.50%) Ethernet
5 4 (1.50%) VPN
6 2 (0.75%) DWDM
6 2 (0.75%) IPv4
6 2 (0.75%) IPv6
6 2 (0.75%) MPLS
6 2 (0.75%) MQTT
6 2 (0.75%) RS-232
6 2 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (15.73%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (12.36%) Relational Database
3 20 (7.49%) Power BI
4 17 (6.37%) RDBMS
5 16 (5.99%) MySQL
6 15 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (4.87%) SQL Server
8 12 (4.49%) Data Lake
9 10 (3.75%) Metadata
10 9 (3.37%) NoSQL
11 8 (3.00%) MongoDB
11 8 (3.00%) Tableau
12 6 (2.25%) Data Mining
13 4 (1.50%) Big Data
13 4 (1.50%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.50%) Metabase
14 3 (1.12%) Pinecone
14 3 (1.12%) Weaviate
15 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
15 2 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (13.11%) Git
2 28 (10.49%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.37%) JUnit
4 16 (5.99%) JMeter
4 16 (5.99%) Mockito
5 12 (4.49%) GitLab
5 12 (4.49%) JIRA
6 4 (1.50%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.12%) LabVIEW
7 3 (1.12%) MLflow
7 3 (1.12%) Selenium
8 2 (0.75%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.75%) Mocha
8 2 (0.75%) Moq
8 2 (0.75%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.75%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.37%) CMake
9 1 (0.37%) Postman
9 1 (0.37%) SoapUI
General
1 56 (20.97%) Social Skills
2 32 (11.99%) Public Sector
3 28 (10.49%) Electronics
4 23 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.74%) Manufacturing
6 15 (5.62%) Finance
7 13 (4.87%) Law
8 11 (4.12%) Aerospace
9 10 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.50%) Advertising
11 4 (1.50%) Back Office
11 4 (1.50%) Games
11 4 (1.50%) Local Government
11 4 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.50%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.12%) Automotive
12 3 (1.12%) Legal
13 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (23.22%) Software Engineer
2 52 (19.48%) Senior
3 48 (17.98%) Developer
4 30 (11.24%) Lead
5 23 (8.61%) Senior Software Engineer
6 18 (6.74%) Analyst
6 18 (6.74%) Java Developer
7 14 (5.24%) Junior
8 13 (4.87%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (4.87%) Principal Engineer
8 13 (4.87%) Python Engineer
9 11 (4.12%) Data Scientist
9 11 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (4.12%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 11 (4.12%) Principal Software Engineer
10 10 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.37%) Junior Software Engineer
11 9 (3.37%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (3.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.11%) REST
2 25 (9.36%) HTML
3 24 (8.99%) React
4 20 (7.49%) jQuery
5 17 (6.37%) Web Services
6 16 (5.99%) ActiveMQ
6 16 (5.99%) Apache Camel
6 16 (5.99%) Hibernate
6 16 (5.99%) Spring
6 16 (5.99%) Spring Boot
6 16 (5.99%) WireMock
7 13 (4.87%) .NET
7 13 (4.87%) Node.js
8 12 (4.49%) Django
9 10 (3.75%) CSS
9 10 (3.75%) Flutter
10 9 (3.37%) Qt
11 8 (3.00%) Flask
11 8 (3.00%) JSON
11 8 (3.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.36%) Algorithms
2 22 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.49%) IoT
4 16 (5.99%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (4.87%) Molecular Biology
6 10 (3.75%) Embedded Systems
7 9 (3.37%) NB-IoT
8 8 (3.00%) Client/Server
8 8 (3.00%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.25%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.25%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.50%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.12%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.12%) Clustering
11 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.12%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 83 (31.09%) Linux
2 21 (7.87%) Windows
3 14 (5.24%) Unix
4 13 (4.87%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.62%) Debian
6 5 (1.87%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.87%) SUSE
6 5 (1.87%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 4 (1.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (27.72%) Software Engineering
2 52 (19.48%) Agile
3 49 (18.35%) CI/CD
4 44 (16.48%) Analytics
4 44 (16.48%) Microservices
4 44 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (16.10%) DevOps
6 42 (15.73%) Machine Learning
7 41 (15.36%) Workflow
8 39 (14.61%) Artificial Intelligence
9 37 (13.86%) Open Source
10 36 (13.48%) Computer Science
11 34 (12.73%) Collaborative Working
12 33 (12.36%) Software Testing
13 30 (11.24%) Physics
14 29 (10.86%) Mathematics
15 27 (10.11%) Data Analysis
16 26 (9.74%) Infrastructure as Code
16 26 (9.74%) Validation
17 25 (9.36%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 63 (23.60%) C++
1 63 (23.60%) SQL
2 49 (18.35%) Java
3 48 (17.98%) JavaScript
4 37 (13.86%) C
5 35 (13.11%) Bash
6 32 (11.99%) PowerShell
7 26 (9.74%) C#
8 25 (9.36%) Shell Script
9 18 (6.74%) Go
10 16 (5.99%) TypeScript
11 14 (5.24%) MATLAB
11 14 (5.24%) Perl
12 13 (4.87%) Fortran
12 13 (4.87%) Rust
13 12 (4.49%) Ruby
14 8 (3.00%) R
15 3 (1.12%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.12%) VB
16 2 (0.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 83 (31.09%) Degree
2 52 (19.48%) Security Cleared
3 49 (18.35%) SC Cleared
4 35 (13.11%) Master's Degree
5 23 (8.61%) PhD
6 15 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (5.62%) DV Cleared
7 13 (4.87%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (3.37%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.50%) A+ Certification
10 4 (1.50%) Dell Certification
10 4 (1.50%) MCP
11 3 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (1.12%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.75%) HND
13 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.37%) HNC
13 1 (0.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.99%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.62%) Accessibility
3 13 (4.87%) QA
4 3 (1.12%) ECSS
5 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.37%) CDISC
5 1 (0.37%) GDPR
5 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
System Software
1 61 (22.85%) Docker
2 21 (7.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.24%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.37%) vSphere
5 7 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.87%) NFS
7 4 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.12%) HDFS
8 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.75%) Firmware
9 2 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 53 (19.85%) Kubernetes
2 39 (14.61%) Terraform
3 28 (10.49%) Ansible
4 16 (5.99%) Kibana
5 9 (3.37%) Puppet
5 9 (3.37%) ZABBIX
6 6 (2.25%) Kustomize
7 4 (1.50%) Graylog
7 4 (1.50%) Nessus
7 4 (1.50%) Proxmox
8 3 (1.12%) Grafana
8 3 (1.12%) Kubeflow
8 3 (1.12%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.12%) SCCM
9 2 (0.75%) Packer
10 1 (0.37%) Argo
10 1 (0.37%) Consul
10 1 (0.37%) Netcool
10 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 36 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.24%) VMware
3 18 (6.74%) Splunk
4 15 (5.62%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.12%) SAP
6 9 (3.37%) Databricks
7 6 (2.25%) Oracle
7 6 (2.25%) Sawtooth Software
8 5 (1.87%) Arista
8 5 (1.87%) Cisco
8 5 (1.87%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.87%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.50%) Apple
9 4 (1.50%) Dell
9 4 (1.50%) Juniper
10 3 (1.12%) Citrix
10 3 (1.12%) IBM
10 3 (1.12%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.12%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.75%) AppDynamics